# Salt and Light Orthodontics, Irvine: an orthodontist in Irvine (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/irvine/salt-and-light-orthodontics-irvine-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 8 sources. Updated 2026-10-23. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/irvine/salt-and-light-orthodontics-irvine-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuwzajvs048xyeqdhyy4waks%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuwzajvs048xyeqdhyy4waks%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuwzajvs048xyeqdhyy4waks%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuwzajvs048xyeqdhyy4waks%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmuwzajvs048xyeqdhyy4waks%2F4.jpg) ## In short **What is Salt & Light Ortho? ** We are your orthodontic home in Irvine for all things teeth-straightening related! We use braces, Invisalign, and other customized treatment options to give you the smile you’ve been waiting to proudly show the world! **Who can be seen at Salt & Light Ortho? ** From our itty bitty friends, to full grown adults, we love helping all our patients achieve beautiful AND healthy smiles. Using 3D imaging technology, we’re able to assess airway issues which can affect dental/skeletal development in children, or sleep apnea in adults. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Orthodontist | | Address | 113 Waterworks Way Ste 215, Irvine, CA 92618, USA | | Hours | Mon to Wed 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Thu · Fri 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (949) 668-1548 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 5.0 across 269 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 21, 2026, 3:39 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 113 Waterworks Way Ste 215, Irvine, CA 92618, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Description | **What is Salt & Light Ortho? ** We are your orthodontic home in Irvine for all things teeth-straightening related! We use braces, Invisalign, and other customized treatment options to give you the smile you’ve been waiting to proudly show the world! **Who can be seen at Salt & Light Ortho? ** From our itty bitty friends, to full grown adults, we love helping all our patients achieve beautiful AND healthy smiles. Using 3D imaging technology, we’re able to assess airway issues which can affect dental/skeletal development in children, or sleep apnea in adults. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Wed 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Thu Closed · Fri 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Salt and Light Orthodontics | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (949) 668-1548 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Services | Service | Adult braces | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Braces | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Early interceptive orthodontics | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Invisalign | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Retainers | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Services | Service | Space maintainers | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/saltandlightortho | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/saltandlightortho | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://www.saltandlightortho.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 6, 2026 | | Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/salt-and-light-orthodontics-irvine | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 21, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 6 services Salt and Light offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Adult braces | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | | Braces | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | | Early interceptive orthodontics | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | | Invisalign | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | | Retainers | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | | Space maintainers | Nothing found | Nothing found | Nothing found | Confirmed | ### Known for Nothing found ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Salt and Light Address: 113 Waterworks Way Ste 215, Irvine, CA 92618, USA. Phone: (949) 668-1548. Hours: Mon to Wed 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Thu · Fri 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 6, 2026 at 10:54 AM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Salt and Light on its Google Business Profile: "**What is Salt & Light Ortho? ** We are your orthodontic home in Irvine for all things teeth-straightening related! We use braces, Invisalign, and other customized treatment options to give you the smile you’ve been waiting to proudly show the world! **Who can be seen at Salt & Light Ortho? ** From our itty bitty friends, to full grown adults, we love helping all our patients achieve beautiful AND healthy smiles. Using 3D imaging technology, we’re able to assess airway issues which can affect dental/skeletal development in children, or sleep apnea in adults." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Irvine Center-Laguna Canyon | Bus stop | 4 min walk | | Left Coast Brewing Co. - Tasting Room, Smokehouse & Distillery Irvine | Brewery | 5 min walk | | Starbucks Coffee Company | Coffee shop | 5 min walk | | Irvine Center-Odyssey | Bus stop | 5 min walk | | Irvine Center-Laguna Canyon | Bus stop | 5 min walk | | Irvine Center-Odyssey | Bus stop | 5 min walk | ## Reputation 5.0 average across 269 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read October 6, 2026.) Salt and Light Orthodontics stands out for its personalized approach to treatment, ensuring each patient's unique needs are met with care and expertise. (AI guess, from 269 reviews.) ### What people like - Invisalign treatment effectiveness - Personalized treatment plans - Friendly and accommodating staff - Efficient appointment scheduling - Use of modern technology ### What people do not like Nothing found ### Press No press story about Salt and Light found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Salt and Light Salt and Light hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### Thursdays here, are they open? No answer yet ### where exactly is this place? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Salt and Light in Irvine? No answer yet ### how do I reach Salt and Light to sort something out? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Salt and Light? No answer yet ### which one, Salt and Light or Irvine Orthodontics? No answer yet ### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in? No answer yet ### does this place ever have cancellations No answer yet ### points or member pricing at Salt and Light, worth signing up? No answer yet ### first visit here, what do I need to bring? No answer yet ### On a budget in Irvine, is Salt and Light the one? No answer yet ### do I need to leave early to find a space No answer yet ### anyone here people keep going back to? No answer yet ### what else is on Waterworks around Salt and Light? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a dentist in Irvine? No answer yet ### is it weeks or months to get an appointment No answer yet ### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints? No answer yet ### last update from here was when? No answer yet ### Busiest day at Salt and Light, anyone know? No answer yet ### the good stuff about Salt and Light, what is it? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Salt and Light We ask Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity about Salt and Light. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 2026. ChatGPT and Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 21, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 44 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Irvine orthodontists run 31 to 58. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Salt and Light scores 44, above the Irvine average of 40. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Salt and Light | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 31 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 15 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 3 of 20 answers that recommended anyone. 17 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 38 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 78 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about an orthodontist When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose an orthodontist in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Salt and Light if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Salt and Light | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Salt and Light Orthodontics | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.saltandlightortho.com/ | Subject of this page | | Irvine, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Salt and Light is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the orthodontists in Irvine, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best orthodontists in Irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine/orthodontist - Best businesses in Irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Salt and Light Orthodontics. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJzVjOk9bn3IARrvyj57mNZuo (accessed Oct 6, 2026) - [2] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/adult-braces (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [3] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/braces (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [4] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/early-interceptive-orthodontics (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [5] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/invisalign (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [6] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/retainers (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [7] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/services/space-maintainers (accessed Oct 21, 2026) - [8] saltandlightortho.com, https://www.saltandlightortho.com/ (accessed Oct 21, 2026)